Thomas Boyle Family tree - and side branches

Notes for John COWAN


Their marriage record for Huron County in 1874 shows him as being a mechanic, age 22, originally from Quebec. The marriage witnesses were Thomas Cowan of McKillop & Cecillia McNabb of Walton.

The family has them getting married in 1877, and then moving to Manitoba to homestead on S.E. corner of section 18-3-6.

Of Irish descent. 1901 census has ‘Q’ for birthplace, which usually meant Quebec. Death info from Manitoba Vital Statistics.

In the 1911 census (taken June 1-2), John and Grace are living on township 3, range 6 in the Norman Ward, Lisgar district in Manitoba. Living with them at the time is their daughter Mabel Vandervoort (widowed), sons Edgar and Frank, and granddaughter’s Thelma and Anna (Mabel’s kids). There is a also an employee named Howard Scales with them, aged 23 from Ontario.

In the 1921 census (done June 16-17), the family is living in Winnipeg, Manitoba at 707 McMillan Avenue South.



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